Formation Establishment and Reconfiguration Using Impulsive Control

We analyze spacecraft formation establishment and reconfiguration problems for two-body orbits. The desired formations are characterized by nonsingular orbital-elemental differences. An analytical, two-impulse solution is proposed for achieving the desired orbital-elemental differences. Gauss's...

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Published in:Journal of guidance, control, and dynamics control, and dynamics, 2005-03, Vol.28 (2), p.262-268
Main Authors: Vaddi, S. S, Alfriend, K. T, Vadali, S. R, Sengupta, P
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aerospace engineering
Applied sciences
Computer science
control theory
systems
Control algorithms
Control theory. Systems
Exact sciences and technology
Fundamental areas of phenomenology (including applications)
Orbits
Physics
Reconfiguration
Satellites
Solid dynamics (ballistics, collision, multibody system, stabilization...)
Solid mechanics
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Summary:We analyze spacecraft formation establishment and reconfiguration problems for two-body orbits. The desired formations are characterized by nonsingular orbital-elemental differences. An analytical, two-impulse solution is proposed for achieving the desired orbital-elemental differences. Gauss's variational equations are used to compute the corresponding impulse magnitudes analytically and the resulting solutions can be easily implemented using onboard computational resources. It is also shown that the cost obtained from the analytical solution differs by less than 1 % from that obtained by numerical optimization.
ISSN:0731-5090
1533-3884
DOI:10.2514/1.6687